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COURSE OF STUDY 



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High Schools of Oregon 



Issued by the 



STATE EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT 



L. R. ALDERMAN 

Supt. of Public Instruction 







SALEM, OREGON 
WILLIS S. DUNIWAY, STATE PRINTEK 



1911 



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COURSES OF STUDY 



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HIGH SCHOOLS OF OREGON 



FOR ONE-YEAR HIGH SCHOOLS. 



Required Subjects 



First half-year 



English: A Modern English 
Grammar to page 60, with 
at least two classics. Com- 
position and Rhetoric for 
schools to page 96. Hand- 
Book of English Composi- 
tion. 



Algebra: Algebra for Sec- 
ondary Schools to page 103. 



Bookkeeping: Office Meth- 
ods and Practical Book- 
keeping completed. 



Second half-year 



English: A Modern Eng- 
glish Grammar to page 
109, with at least two 
classics, and Composition 
and Rhetoric for schools 
to page 143, Hand Book 
of English Compsitlon. 

Algebra: Algebra for Sec- 
ondary Schools to page 



Botany: Elements of Bot- 
any, completed, 



Optional Subjects 



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First or second half-year 



Physical G e o g r a p h y— 1 ; 
New Physical Geography, 
completed. 



Civics— %: The Govern- 
ment of the American 
People, completed. 

General History— 1 : Myer 's 
General History to page 
332. 

Physiology— %: A Treatise 
on Physiology and Hygi- 
ene, completed. 

Higher Arithmetic— 1/^: An 
Academic Arithmetic, 
completed. 



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FOR TWO-YEAR HIGH SCHOOLS. 

FIRST YEAR. 



Required subjects 



First half-year 



English: A Modern English 
Grammar to page 60, with 
at least two classics. Com. 
position and Rhetoric for 
Schools to page 96. Hand 
Book of English Composi- 
tion. 



Algebra: Algebra for Sec- 
ondary Schools to page 
103. 

Bookkeeping: Office Meth- 
ods and Practical Book- 
keeping, completed. 

General History: Myer's 
General History to page 
192. 



Second half-year 



English: A Modern Eng- 
lish Grammar to page 
109, with at least two 
classics, and Composi- 
tion and Rhetoric for 
Schools to page 1-J3, 
Hand Book of English 
Composition. 

Algebra: Algebra for Sec- 
ondary Schools to page 

2-18. 

General History: Myer's 
General I^ist^ry to page 

332. •- •, , 

Botany— 3^;'* Elements of 
Botany, completed. 



Optional subiects 



Second half-year 



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COURSE OF STUDY. 



SECOND YEAR. 



Knprlisli: A Modern KuRlish 
( ;i-!niiinar to pn^re 218, with 
nl li'iist two classu's. Uom- 
position and Rlietoric for 
Schools to pagre 261. Hand 
Book of EnKllsh Composi- 
tion. 

Alf^ebra: AlRobra for Sec- 
ondary Schools to papce 

General History : M y e r \s 
General History to page 
564. 

Physical Geography: New 
Physical Geography to 
page 203, 



English: A Modern Eng- 
lish Grammar, complet- 
ed, with at least two 
classics. Composition 
and Rhetoric for Schools 
to page 301. Hand Book 
of English Composition. 

General History: Myer's Civics — Y>; The Govern- 
General History com- i ment of th«^ Ainprifnn 
pleted. 

Physical Geography: New 
Physical Geography, 
completed. 



Physiology— ^2; A Treatise 
on Physiology and Hy- 
giene, completed. 



Jivics — Y>; The Govern- 
ment of the American 
People, completed. 



FOR THREE AND FOUR-YEAR HIGH SCHOOLS. 

FIRST YEAR. 



Required subjects 


Optional Subjects 


First half-year 


Second half-year 


First or second half-year 


English: A Modern English 
Grammar to page 60, with 
at least two classics. Com- 
position and Rhetoric for 
Schools to page 96. Hand 
Book of English Composi- 
tion. 

Algebra: Algebi-a for Sec- 
ondary Schools to page 
103. 

Bookkeeping: Office Meth- 
ods and Practical Book- 
keeping, completed. 


English: A Modern Eng- 
lish Grammar to page 109, 
with at least two classics. 
Composition and Rhet- 
oric for Schools to page 
143. Hand Book of Eng- 
lish Composition. 

Algebra; Algebra for Sec- 
ondary Schools to page 
248. 

Botany — 1/2: Elements of 
Botany, completed. 


General History— 1: Myer's 
General History to page 
332. 

Latin-1. 

A First Latin Book, Hale. 

German— 1. 

See text-book circular. 

Zoology— 1/2. 
Introduction to Zoology. 



p]nglish: Hand Book of Eng- 
lish Composition, with at 
least two classics. Com- 
position and Rhetoric for 
Schools to page 261. A 
Modei-n English Grammar 
to page 218. 

Algebra: Algebra for Sec- 
ondary Schools, com- 
pleted, to page 350. 

Physical Geography: New 
Physical Geography to 
page 203. 



English: Composition and : General History— 1: Myer's 



General History, com- 
pleted. 



Rhetoric for Schools 
completed, with at least 
two classics. Hand Book 
of English Composition. | 
A Modern English Gram- j 
mar, completed. ! 

Physical Geography: New Latin— 1: Civsar's Gallic 
PhysicalGeography.com- War, completed. Also 
pleted. 1 Latin Prose Composition. 

Geometry: Plane Geome- German— 1. 
try to page 135. 



COURSE OF STUDY. 



THIRD YEAR, 



English: Hand Eook of Eng- 
lish Composition, with at 
least two classics. English 
Literature to page 191. 



Geometry; Plane Geometry 
to page 251. 

Physics: First Course in 
Physics to page 226 . 



English: ISnglish Litera- 
ture, completed, with at 
least two classics. Hand 
Book of English Compo- 
sition. 

Physics: First Course in 
Physics, comipleted. 

Geometry: Solid Geome- 
try, completed. 



Latin— 1: Cicero'sOrations. 



German — 1. 



Arithmetic— 1: Academic 
Arithmetic completed. 



FOURTH YEAR, 



English: American Litera- 
ture to page 18;), with at 
least two classics. Hand i 
Book of English Composi- 
tion. 



English: American Litera- 
ture, completed, with at 
least two classics. Hand 
Book of English Compo- 
sition. 



Latin— 1: VirgiPs ^neid. 



U. S. History and Civics: A 
Student's History of the 
United States to page 295, 
and Government of the 
American people. 



U. S. History and Civics: 
A Student's History of 
the United States, com- 
pleted, and Government 
of the American people. 



German— 1. 

Algebra— ^-j. Reviewed. 

Political E conomy —V2 : 
The Elements of Eco- 
nomics, completed. 

Physiology— % ; A Treatise 
on Physiology and Hygi- 
ene, completed. 

Chemistry— 1: Element- 
ary Study of Chemistry, 
completed. 

Geology — V2 Introduction 
to Geology. 

Astronomy— %: A New As- 
tronomy, completed. 



Note.— No pupil shall carry more than four subjects at any one time. 



HIGH SCHOOL COURSE IN ENGLISH CLASSICS. 

Note: These books are all in the State list of books for public schools. Proper 
editions with reduced prices for schools are given in that list which is issued by the 
Oregon Library Commission, and the list will be sent to any teacher without charge. 

FIRST YEAR. 

Required Classics. (Select any two each term.) 



First Term- 



1. The Sketch Book. Irving. 

2. The Gold Bug. Poe. 

8. Early English Ballads. 

(a) Chevy Chase. 

(6) Sir Patrick Spens. 

(c) Robin Hood. 
4. Lays of Ancient Rome. Macaulay. 



COURSE OF STUDY. 



Second Term— 

1. The Iliad. Books I. VI, XXII, XXIV. Bryant's translation: and 

The myths of the twelve principal Greek gods. Use Gayley's (Jlasslc Myths 
for reference. 

2. The Deserted Village. Goldsmith. 

3. Essays of Ella. Lamb. 

4. Ivanhoe. Scott. 

Supplementary Reading. (Select any two each term.) 

1. The Jungle Book. Kipling. 

2. The Wonder Book. Hawthorne. 

3. Treasure Island. Stevenson. 

4. The Roosevelt Book. 

5. Tom Brown's School Days. Hughes. 

6. Ohristmas Oarol. Dickens. 

7. Rab and His Friends, Brown. 

8. The Lady of the Lake. Scott. 

9. As You Like It. Shakespeare. 
10. Birds and Bees. Burroughs. 

SECOND YEAR. 
Required Classics. (Select any two each term.) 

Firgt Term— 

1. The Ancient Mariner. Coleridge. 

2. The Vision of Sir Launfal. Lowell. 

3. The Idylls of the King. Tennyson, 
(a) Gareth and Lynette. 

(&) Launcelot and Elaine, 
(c) The Passing of Arthur. 

4. Joan of Arc and the English Mail Coach. De Quincy. 

Second Term — 

1. The Tale of Two Cities. Dickens. 

2. The First Bunker Hill Oration. Webster. 

3. Marmion. Scott. 

4. The Merchant of Venice. Shakespeare. 

Supplementary Reading. (Select any two each term.) 

1. The Boy's King Arthur. Lanier. 

2. Book of Famous Verse. Repplier. 

3. Norse Stories, Hamilton Mabie. 

4. Quentin Durward. Scott. 

5. Stevenson's Essays. Edited by W. L. Phelps. 

6. The Odyssey. Translated by Palmer, 

7. David Copperfleld. Dickens. 

8. Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare. 

9. Lorna Doone. Blackmore. 

10. Plutarch's Lives. Edited by Ginn. 

THIRD YEAR. 

Required Classics. (Select any two each term.) 

First Term— 

1. The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Chaucer. 

2. Julius Caesar. Shakespeare. 

3. Sesame and Lilies. Ruskin. 

4. Faerie Q,ueene, Selections. Spenser. 



COURSE OF STUDY. 



Second Term— 

1. Sir Roger de Oovtrley Papers, 

2. Oarlyle's Essays on Burns and Burns' Poems. 

3. Silas Marner. Eliot. 

4. Palgrave's Golden Treasury. First Series. Book IV. 
Special attention to Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley. 

Supplementary Reading. (Select any two each term.) 

1. Cranford. Gaskell. 

2. Pilgrim's Progress. Bunyan. 

3. Sohrab and Rustum. Arnold. 

4. Heroes and Hero-Worships. Carlyle. 

5. Henry V. Shakespeare. 

6. The Rivals. Sheridan. 

7. Vicar of Wakefield. Goldsmith. 

8. Henry Esmond. Thackeray. 

9. Milton's Minor Poems. 

10. Pride and Prejudice. Austen. 

FOURTH YEAR, 
Required Classics. (Select any two each term.) 

First Term— 

1. Autobiography. Franklin. 

2. Speech on Conciliation with America. Burke. 

3. Courtship of Miles Standish. Longfellow. 

4. The House of the Seven Gables. Hawthorne. 

Second Term— 

1. Macbeth. Shakespeare. 

2. Selected Essays. Emerson. 

3. American Poems. Edited by Long. 

4. Oliver Goldsmith. Irving. 

Supplementary Reading. (Select any two each year.) 

1. The Last of the Mohicans. Cooper. 

2. Abraham Lincoln. Schurz, 

3. In the Wilderness. Warner. 

4. Hawthorne. Woodberry. 

5. Up from Slavery. Washington. 

6. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Holmes. 

7. My Study Windows. Lowell. 

8. First Across the Continent (The Journal of Lewis and Clark). Brooks. 

9. Twice Told Tales. Hawthorne. 

10. The Making of an American. Riis. 



TEACHERS TRAINING COURSE. 



TEACHERS' TRAINING COURSE FOR HIGH SCHOOLS 

This course is prepared in coiuplinnce with Sections 14 and 84, School Laws of 
Oregon, 1911. The arrangement is only sufrgestive, but the full amount of work given 
In this course must be completed bj" a student before he will be entitled to a certificate 
without examination. 

The principal of the high school will please notify this department by December 
1, of the number taking this course, so the blanks required by law may be furnished 
each school. 

The schools offering this course will be visited during the year by the Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction or the Assistant Superintendent. 
10th Grade. Elementary Agriculture — One-half year, five recitations per week. 

2d Term. 

The class work may be based on one of the books recommended for the 
reference librai-y and the State Course of Study. Practical Nature 
Study and Elementary Agriculture by Coulter and Patterson is an 
especially good text. The teacher should have the Teaching of Agri- 
culture in the High Schools by Bricker. 

Report to the satisfaction of the principal on at least two of the texts 
found in school reference library. 

11th Grade. American History — Five recitations per week, including special meth- 
ods of teaching History. See State Course of Studj' on History. Study 
how to present the stories offered in the first four grades. 

12th Gi-ade. I. Review— One year. 

Reading, 9 weeks. ] ^ 

Grammar, 9 weeks. \ Three recitations and 

Arithmetic, 9 weeks. { two hours' observation work per week. 

Geography, 9 weeks. J 

This course should include a thorough study of the Course of Study in 
in each of these subjects. Use for reference Bagley's Class-room 
Management, making a special study of the chapter on Observa- 
tion Work. 

II. Methods — One year, five recitations per week, 
(a.) Oolgrove's The Teacher and the School. 
(&.) A study of school blanks. 

1. How to keep the register. 

2. How to make out the daily program. 
8. How to make the monthly report. 

4. School Law. 

(c.) Report to the satisfaction of the principal on at least one of the 
texts in History of Education, and one in Principles of Educa- 
tion, found in the school reference library. 

Principals ofTering this course will please read carefully sections 14 and 84, School 
Laws of Oregon, noting especially the following provisions: 

A one-year State certificate shall be granted without examination to applicants 
who have completed four years' work in an accredited high school or other accredited 
institution; provided, that the applicant shall have completed the teachers' training 
course in such high school or institution as provided for in this act. A one-year State 
certificate may be renewed only once when the holder thereof has presented satis- 
factory evidence of having successfully taught six months' school during the life of 
such certificate. § 14, subdivision 2. 

At least one teacher shall devote not less than four hours each day to the teacher's 
training course, and such teacher or teachers shall have been graduated from a 
standard normal school or Its equivalent, which equivalency shall be passed upon by 
the Superintendent of Public Instruction. § 34, subdivision 1. 

At least two teachers exclusive of the city superintendent shall give their entire 
time to instructions in subjects above grammar school subjects, § 84, subdivision 2 

Schools offering this course shall have a reference library of at least three vol- 
umes on each of the following fields of professional study: History of education* 
principles of education, methods and special training in industrial education, includ- 
ing agriculture. § 34, subdivision 5. 



TEACHERS' TRAINING COURSE. 



BOOKS RECOMMENDED FOR REFERENCE LIBRARY. 

History of Education- 
Monroe, Paul. Brief course in history of education. 1905. Macmillan, $1.25. 
Davidson, Thomas. History of education. 1900. Scribner, 81.00. 
Dexter, E. G. History of education in the United States. 1904. Macmillan, $2.00. 
Hughes, R. E. Making of citizens; a study in comparative education. 1902. 

Scribner, $1.50. 
Hinsdale, B. A. Horace Mann and the common school revival in the United 

States. 1898. Scribner, $1.00. 

Principles of Education— 

Ruediger, W. C. Principles of education. 1910. Houghton, $1.25. Postage lie. 
Dewey, John. The school and society: supplemented by a statement of the 

University elementary school. 1900. University of Chicago Press, $1.00. 
Henderson, E. N. A text-book in the principles of education. 1910. Macmillan, 

$1.75. 
Pestalozzi, J. H. Leonard and Gertrude; translated and abridged by Eva Chan- 

ning. 1907. Heath, 90c. 
Spencer, Herbert. Education, intellectual, moral and physical. 1900. Appleton, 

$1.25. 

Industrial Education Including Agriculture- 
Dean, A. D. The worker and the state. 1910. Century, $1.20. 
Coulter, J. M., and others. Practical nature study and elementary agriculture. 

1909. Appleton, $1.35. 
Hodge, C. F. Nature study and life. 1902. Ginn, $1.50. 

Greene, M. L. Among school gardens. 1910. Charities Pub. Co,, $1.25. 
Hanus, P. H. Beginnings in industrial education, and other educational discus- 
sions. 1908. Houghton, $1.00. 

Educational Psychology- 
James, William. Talks to teachers- on psychology and to students on some of 

life's ideals. 1900. Holt, $1.50. 
Dewey, John. How we think. 1910. Heath, $1.00. 
Bagley, W. C. The educative process. 1905. Macmillan, $1.25. 
Rowe, S. H. Habit-formation and the science of teaching. 1909. Longmans, 

$1.50. 
Thorndike, E. L. Educational psychology. 1903. Lemcke, $1.50. 

Teaching— 

Bagley, W. C. Class management; Its principles and technique. 1907. Macmil- 
lan, $1.25. 

McMurry, F. M. How to study and teaching how to study. 1909. Houghton, 
$1.25. 

Betts, G. H. The recitation. 1911. Houghton, 60c. 

Dinsmore, J. W. Teaching a district school; a book for young teachers. 1908. 
American Book Co., $1.25. 

Parker, F. W. Talks on teaching; reported by L. E. Patridge, 1893. Barnes, 
$1.00. 

A description of these books is given in the list of books on Education in the 
general loan collection prepared by the Oregon Library Commission. The prices 
given are the publishers' prices. Some of these books are on the school library list, 
and the school prices may be found in the library list. 

After January 1, 1912, the state examination questions in Psychology will be based 
on Read's An Introductory Psychology; the questions in Theory and Practice of 
Teaching will be based on Colgrove's The Teacher and the School; questions on His- 
tory of Education are now based on Davidson's History of Education. There will 
be no questions on English classics for the December, 1911, examinations. 



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